In a radical departure from the reporting we normally see with regard to immigration, a legacy information outlet elected to report GOOD information associated to the Trump administration’s efforts to implement the southern border. NBC’s report on the border is an actual eye-opener:
Watch the report in its entirety, as aired on NBC Nightly Information on Tuesday, October seventh, 2025:
TOM LLAMAS: Now to new numbers from the southern border displaying unlawful crossings have plummeted to file lows below President Trump. A dramatic change from the scenes we noticed alongside the border only a yr in the past. Julia Ainsley has our new reporting.
JULIA AINSLEY: Tonight, new numbers displaying the dramatic change on the border.
MIKE BANKS: We’ve bought essentially the most managed border we’ve ever had within the historical past, and in my lifetime within the border patrol.
AINSLEY: In Eagle Move, Texas, in the course of the Biden administration, greater than 2,000 migrants crossed into the U.S. in a single day. However now, below President Trump’s insurance policies, officers encounter simply 20 migrants a day right here. Tonight, DHS touting the bottom variety of unlawful border crossings since 1970. And Border Patrol Chief Mike Banks tells us they’ll increase the one mile of defensive buoys on the Rio Grande.
BANKS: We’ve bought about 500 miles recognized throughout the whole Texas border the place we’re gonna place these within the river.
AINSLEY: Is that this the brand new wall?
BANKS: It is protection in-depth.
AINSLEY: We have been right here two years in the past the place migrants used to hold youngsters on their backs to get throughout this river and reduce via this barbed wire to get to the USA. They might see lots of, even 1000’s a day on this very spot. However at the moment, it’s silent. North in Del Rio, border residents telling us they’re thrilled the crossings are down.
RESIDENT: We’ve our neighborhood again to regular.
AINSLEY: Border safety, a significant component in two majority-Latino districts, Eagle Move and Del Rio, voting crimson final November. Enterprise proprietor Lwo Martinez is a Democrat who voted for Trump, saying his once-eight-hour commute to his factories throughout the border now takes 20 minutes.
LEO MARTINEZ: Now if you happen to take a look at the border, it is tremendous quiet. So regardless of the present administration has finished, it is working.
AINSLEY: His daughter voted for Trump, too.
Do you suppose what occurred right here with the surge led extra folks to vote for Trump?
LEO MARTINEZ’ DAUGHTER: Sure. 100%.
AINSLEY: However throughout the border, President Trump’s insurance policies blocking asylum claims additionally having an affect. Johanna Romero along with her 6-month outdated son saying she’s determined, ready in Mexico since December. Saying she’s fleeing loss of life threats from her child’s father. I used to be actually afraid. It was a really sturdy menace, she mentioned.
President Trump’s coverage banning asylum seekers on the border is now being challenged in courtroom. Tom.
LLAMAS: Julia Ainsley. Julia, we thanks.
Usually, while you see immigration reporting, it’s centered round constructing victimization narratives. And Julia Ainsley did serve that up, however on the END of the report. Nearly as if to cleanse viewer palates of every part else they noticed prior.
And what did they see, precisely? There was the top of the Border Patrol speaking about how numbers have come down dramatically. There was dialogue of the defensive buoys positioned within the Rio Grande, however no hyperventilating about them as homicide gadgets.
The report then featured Trump-voting Democrat Hispanics who’re happy with what they’ve seen when it comes to border enforcement. Recall that locations equivalent to Eagle Move and Del Rio bore the brunt of Biden’s open border. However no extra.
There have been additionally no immigration advocacy teams current within the report back to vilify Trump’s enforcement coverage or to complain about every part. This report was a refreshing change of tempo from the standard immigration fare on legacy media.
